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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>, "Theresa O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: two json.el bugs
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 12:25:25 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea95b080-40d3-402d-a998-8567d071fe95@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8WA2JCf6ZWNdiyuuoVo9hBHziuF=ALCT+jpuuOyiafUwQ@mail.gmail.com>

> > 1. `json-skip-whitespace' uses a hardcoded list of whitespace
> > characters, which means it fails to skip over other WSpace=Y
> > characters. It should probably use `search-whitespace-regexp' from
> > isearch.el (or an equivalent value from elsewhere) instead.
> 
> JSON is defined by the standard [ECMA-404][1]...
> Section 4, paragraph the last:
> 
> | Insignificant whitespace is allowed before or after any token.
> | The whitespace characters are: character tabulation (U+0009),
> | line feed (U+000A), carriage return (U+000D), and space (U+0020).
> 
> In my copy of Emacs 25.1, json-skip-whitespace looks like this:
> 
> (defun json-skip-whitespace ()
>   "Skip past the whitespace at point."
>   (skip-chars-forward "\t\r\n\f\b "))
> 
> that is, it skips the whitespace characters defined by the spec, and
> in addition to that, also form feed (U+000C) and backspace (U+0007).
> 
> If anything, \f\b should be *removed* from characters to be skipped.

+1



  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-05 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-05 17:51 two json.el bugs Theresa O'Connor
2017-05-05 18:44 ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-05 19:25   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-05-20 15:51   ` [PATCH] Fix definition of whitespace in JSON Philipp Stephani
2017-05-20 17:28     ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-05-21 21:03       ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-27 13:32   ` two json.el bugs Philipp Stephani
2017-05-27 13:48 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-28  1:30   ` Drew Adams
2017-05-28 18:47     ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-28 22:12       ` Drew Adams
2017-05-28 22:44         ` Bruce V Chiarelli
2017-05-29  0:42           ` Drew Adams

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